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Food Chain
Third graders role-play various organisms from a food chain to illustrate how a food chain works. In relay style, 3rd graders fill their cups (stomachs) and, in turn, fill a larger organism's cup (stomach) to visualize the importance of...
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Prairie Scales and Prairie Smoothies
Sixth graders explore the animals that live on the prairie and identify differences between amphibians and reptiles and the adaptations each have made to live on the prairie.
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Facts on Fish Species
Here is a brief outline of facts on various Chesapeake Bay fish species. Use it as an example of what kind of information you want your life science learners to collect when you assign them a specific species to research. Another way to...
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Delaware Crossword
In this Delaware instructional activity, students answer questions about Delaware in a crossword. Students fill in 11 answers to the Delaware crossword.
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Dining Out With Fishes of the Hudson
For this reading comprehension worksheet, 5th graders read information and complete 3 activities based on the information they have read.
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Taste Buds
Learners investigate taste buds. In this taste buds lesson, students identify the four basic taste buds and their locations on our tongue. Learners participate in an experiment to investigate how our taste buds work.
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Bat Ecology
Young scholars, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through...
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Invertebrate Vocabulary-- Marine Invertebrate Match
In this science worksheet, students study 12 vocabulary words which pertain to marine invertebrates. Students read the definitions which include pronunciation, part of speech and meaning of the name. Students then look at 16 organisms...
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Types of Animals (4.1)
In this types of animals worksheet, students display facts about animals using multiple choice, true and false, and fill in the blank answers. Students write fifteen answers.
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Delaware Vocabulary
For this Delaware worksheet, students match vocabulary words to sentences describing them having to do with famous people, places, and history of Delaware. Students match 11 vocabulary words.
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Wild Wonderful Walk
Students explore the outdoors. In this poetry lesson, students spend time outdoors and write a poem about what they felt and saw. Students can do this activity in pairs or alone. Students blindfold their partner to focus on sounds and...
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'O'opu Life Cycle
Students investigate the life cycle of the 'o'opu also known as Hawaiian gobies. In this amphidromous living lesson, students discuss the reproductive cycle, create props and an obstacle course to demonstrate the importance of the...
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Taste Buds
Students sample several sweet, sour, bitter and salty foods. They determine what part of their tongue tasted each flavor.
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Macroinvertebrate Sampling
Students identify macroinvertebrate species to investigate ecological systems and the relationship between humans and the environment.
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Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home
Students investigate the concept of reading while focusing upon using "Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home" for comprehension exercises. They read the story and use the rhyming with the drill and practice technique of teaching. Students...
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Activity: Bird Beak Buffet
Students study the functions of bird beaks. In this animal evolution lesson, students compare and contrast different types of bird beaks focusing on how the beaks are adapted to the foods the birds eat. Students record and graph their...
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Polytene Chromosomes from Salivary Glands
Young scholars use this laboratory procedure to outline the mechanism by which salivary glands are removed and prepared so that the polytene chromosomes may be observed.Drosophila virilis is used instead of Drosophila melanogaster...
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Anthropods and Echinoderms
Students examine the attributes of crickets. For this arthropods lesson, students observe crickets and sketch and label their parts. Students respond to questions regarding their observations.
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Quiz: Mind Your Mammals
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders respond to questions pertaining to mammals. Students answer ten questions consisting of true/false, and multiple choice.
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Our Australia: The Plants and Animals of Australia
For this Australia worksheet, students 19 questions regarding the plants and animals of Australia. A print out version of this worksheet is available, but the online version contains links to various webpages with information on the...
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Hedgehog
In this hedgehog worksheet, students read information paragraphs about the habitat, reproduction, feeding and adaptation of hedgehogs. Students study the photograph of the mammal. There are no questions to answer here.
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Invertebrates
In this invertebrates worksheet, learners read about the characteristics of the different groups of invertebrates. Then students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Animal Quiz
In this animals worksheet, students complete short answer questions in a quiz about all different kinds of animals. Students complete 30 questions.
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Protist Crossword
In this protist learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle with 34 questions about the behaviour and different types of protists.